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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
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[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
